![]() The garden becomes her place of refuge and delight, as she spends most of her days outdoors. Patience and failure, she says, are the lot of the gardener. The book describes her efforts and failures and renewed efforts, particularly with roses but with many other plants as well, flowers, bushes, and trees. ![]() There was no garden left, and she had no experience as a gardener but was eager to have one. She describes convincing her husband to spend more time in their country estate, which had been neglected for 25 years. She was born Mary Annette Beauchamp (later changing her name to Elizabeth) in Australia and raised in England. Billed as a novel, the text reads as a year of journal entries by Elizabeth, and the situation follows von Arnim’s life situation as wife of a German baron. ![]() Here is light summer reading, in which the main attraction is Elizabeth’s delight in her garden. Reviewed by: Priscilla Grundy on July 5, 2019 Book Review Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim, 1985 ![]()
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